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Reading TVTropes... far too much of it in fact... there's this on the Magnificent Bastard page:
As far as I'm concerned, Snape just isn't Magnificent. I mean, if he was? It would have unfolded that he secretly manipulated Dumbledore to kill himself, faked his death, guilt-tripped Harry into getting himself killed via bogus memories, and reappeared just as Voldemort was celebrating to Avara Kedavra his butt to Hell. Then he would have coolly regarded Harry's corpse and spat "it was fun while it lasted, Potter" from the side of his mouth, only to proceed to recycle Harry's corpse into potion ingredients, use an improved version of the Polyjuice Potion to permanently take Harry's shape, and return as a hero to make mad, passionate love to Ginny, Hermione and Luna all three at once while secretly putting forth his plans to conquer the world.
Magnificent Bastards are implausibly over the top. That's the whole point.
-- Karellen, in You Know That Thing Where
Alls I can say is -- that?
Would have been glorious.
(cf. discussion in babb CXXXIX about Harry Potter done as a melodrama.)
See also: Harry Potter, Tall Dark and Snarky (I knew there was a reason Auron struck me the same way), Slytherin House, Draco In Leather Pants, Wronski Feint, Deadpan Snarker.
As far as I'm concerned, Snape just isn't Magnificent. I mean, if he was? It would have unfolded that he secretly manipulated Dumbledore to kill himself, faked his death, guilt-tripped Harry into getting himself killed via bogus memories, and reappeared just as Voldemort was celebrating to Avara Kedavra his butt to Hell. Then he would have coolly regarded Harry's corpse and spat "it was fun while it lasted, Potter" from the side of his mouth, only to proceed to recycle Harry's corpse into potion ingredients, use an improved version of the Polyjuice Potion to permanently take Harry's shape, and return as a hero to make mad, passionate love to Ginny, Hermione and Luna all three at once while secretly putting forth his plans to conquer the world.
Magnificent Bastards are implausibly over the top. That's the whole point.
-- Karellen, in You Know That Thing Where
Alls I can say is -- that?
Would have been glorious.
(cf. discussion in babb CXXXIX about Harry Potter done as a melodrama.)
See also: Harry Potter, Tall Dark and Snarky (I knew there was a reason Auron struck me the same way), Slytherin House, Draco In Leather Pants, Wronski Feint, Deadpan Snarker.